Grim Reaper has trapped Doctor Strange’s astral form inside a magic mirror and Valkyrie
(Jane F) is fighting him for it; she fires her All-Weapon at him but GR smashes
it, causing it to blow back at her. The villain leaps astride a black Stallion
of Hell to deliver Strange to his master Mephisto. Kaecilius takes the
opportunity to vanish so Valkyrie Jane Foster summons Mister Horse but Dr.
Annabelle Riggs stops her to express her disappointment at Brunnhilde’s
replacement; Jane excuses herself and heads out in pursuit of the Grim Reaper.
After she is gone, Lisa Halloran tells Riggs that Valkyrie met her on the worst
day of her life and became her friend and emotional support and she will do no
less as Valkuyrie. Lisa calls Damage Control and asks them to send the “Atomic
Steed” (former vehicle of the Black Knight) and takes Riggs along to apologize
in person….
Jane catches up with Grim Reaper as he is about to escape through a Hell-Gate
in the sky above Manhattan. Horse takes on the black stallion and the two
riders face each other in midair. The battle shows Jane that with Mephisto’s
powers, Grim Reaper is faster and stronger than she is. Lisa and Riggs arrive
to lend a hand with the Atomic Steed’s weapons and Riggs apologizes to
Valkyrie, telling her to not fight like a super-hero. Jane catches on—realizing
that Grim Reaper sees himself as a hero, intending to raise his brother from
the dead, and if he is a dead hero, she knows where dead heroes go. Jane seizes
the villain and drags him, protesting, into Valhalla. Brunnhilda is a bit
skeptical of this new arrival but Skurge takes GR under his wing to show him
around. And watching from Hell, Mephisto swears revenge. Jane returns to the
college with the magic mirror and Strange’s soul is reunited with his body; he
thanks her, while also letting on he knows she is Jane Foster….
So Jane heads into her new life, tending to the
living as a doctor, ministering unto the dead in the morgue, and fighting for
both as the Valkyrie….